Engineering leader, AI systems builder, researcher.
I build practical AI systems at the intersection of foundation models, robotics and industrial engineering. My background spans embedded systems, cloud platforms, engineering leadership, industrial digitalization and, increasingly, multi-agent and on-device AI.
Currently interested in making frontier AI useful in real-world systems: reliable agent orchestration, private/on-device inference, robotics and industrial applications.
Engineering consultancy spanning AI infrastructure and industrial digitalization.
Cyber-physical AI system combining a Huenit robot arm, model reasoning, locally hosted Apertus and a G-code controller. It also generates a living Automated Technical File from source code and operational logs.
On-device RAG platform for field and industrial teams. Cited answers from an organisation's own documents, fully offline via MLX and Apertus, with iOS and web interfaces.
On-device LLM interpretability: a forward-only disposition lens that reads model state from J-space and visualises confidence, uncertainty, refusal and evasiveness before the model speaks.
QLoRA fine-tune of Apertus 8B trained on operational data from the Flotilla fleet. A four-arm blind evaluation found that retrieval explained the observed performance gain; under identical retrieved context the adapter performed worse than the base model. Corpus, adapter and per-question scores are public.
On-device iOS oracle using a local vision-language model and Ministral 3B. Fully local inference via MLX.
AI-assisted music project reimagining classical works across Celtic, vallenato, progressive house, EDM and other genres.
Program management for ESA certification of an embedded AI inference engine for high-performance imaging in space.
Led the international working group defining the OPC UA Companion Specification for the wire-harness industry, collaborating with global automotive OEMs through ARENA2036 in Stuttgart.
Coordinated data communication for Komax wire-processing machines on Audi's production floor as part of a broader digital manufacturing program.
Evaluation and selection of a Manufacturing Execution System for Axetris's semiconductor production line.
Program-managed the digital platform for Komax, leading a team of fifteen integrating cloud services, predictive maintenance and AI-powered analytics.
Integrated a Manufacturing Execution System with Kistler's sensor software for plastic injection-moulding machines.
Founded a platform for navigable VR environments used by cities and companies. Successful exit to BitForge AG.
Directed R&D for home automation. Managed thirty engineers across embedded Linux, Azure cloud back-ends and cross-platform mobile apps. Led early cloud-based voice-control work in home automation.
Led software for networked audio ICs and twenty developers across Switzerland, India and Eastern Europe. Initiated the project that brought Apple AirPlay into the customer portfolio.
Architected a three-tier loosely coupled architecture for semiconductor packaging-machine control and managed a CHF 5M R&D project.
Nanorobotics research on graphical interfaces for manipulating objects in the microworld with a high-precision robot. Three peer-reviewed publications resulted from the work.
Adventures in Digitalization
Swiss industrial software, AI agents and what actually ships.
Sci-Fi by Miguel
Short stories, novella excerpts and notes on writing science fiction in the AI era.
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